First, the good news: AMD’s doing away with the frightful hodgepodge of motherboard platforms to unite around the AM4 socket with Ryzen CPUs, Bristol Ridge APUs, and all other chips released in the foreseeable future. Huzzah!

But a group of parents gathered at the school May 31 to talk about how that message is being challenged in a frightful way — messages of hate finding their way into the Alameda Unified School District’s campuses.

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